There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.

To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.

For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.